A speech from Jeff Fountain during the Europe Day Celebration (9th May 2019 in Bucharest) (Part I here) It was on a train trip in 1948, when Schuman heard of a centre in Switzerland called, ‘The Centre for the Reconciliation…
How to live the legacy that Robert Schuman left in Europe. From Jeff Fountain’s book Deeply Rooted (Part I here) II. Dare we still dream about Europe becoming a ‘community of peoples deeply rooted in Christian values’? Talk about a future…
When was the last time you held a banknote to the light to check the watermark? Maybe if you happen to be a bank clerk or a cashier at the check-out counter, you do that daily. But for the vast…
A speech from Jeff Fountain during the Europe Day Celebration (9th May 2019 in Bucharest) Many of us have very short memories and unfortunately short memories breed short sightedness. This is why I want to share a story that I…
During the coming weeks, the Schuman Centre publishes the last chapter of Jeff Fountain's book Deeply Rooted, which attempts to understand how to live the legacy that Robert Schuman left in Europe. Robert Schuman’s story raises many questions for us today,…
